by Sallie Crawley | Oct 13, 2022 | Emotional Recovery & Mental Health, Tests, Medicines, Treatments & Surgery
Feeling emotional after a heart attack, surgery, or cardiac arrest? I’m sure, whilst you are reading this, you may be feeling as though you can’t see an ending to this anxiety and worry. You may even think it’s pointless trying. You may have started...
by Sallie Crawley | Oct 6, 2022 | Emotional Recovery & Mental Health, Physical Recovery & Cardiac Rehabilitation, Stories & Inspiration, Tests, Medicines, Treatments & Surgery, Understanding Your Heart & Diagnosis
Is it just me? – Getting over the impact of a heart attack After any traumatic event in our lives, there is a period of reflection. We question the why’s and what we could have done to prevent the event from happening. Getting over the impact of a heart attack...
by Sallie Crawley | Sep 29, 2022 | Emotional Recovery & Mental Health, Physical Recovery & Cardiac Rehabilitation, Tests, Medicines, Treatments & Surgery, Understanding Your Heart & Diagnosis
Is how you feel after a heart attack, cardiac event, or heart surgery normal? Suffering from anxiety, breathlessness, panic, sleeplessness, anger, loneliness, frustration, sadness, grief, or fear? All of these feelings are completely normal to experience during...
by Sallie Crawley | Apr 13, 2022 | Emotional Recovery & Mental Health, Physical Recovery & Cardiac Rehabilitation, Podcast, Symptoms, Monitoring & Knowing When to Get Help, Tests, Medicines, Treatments & Surgery, Understanding Your Heart & Diagnosis
I recently asked in my Facebook community how have people been feeling since their heart attack, cardiac event or open-heart surgery. At the top of the poll was fatigue closely followed up by sleep issues, anxiety and lack of motivation. I thought these would be great...
by Sallie Crawley | Jun 24, 2021 | Confidence, Acceptance & Moving Forward, Podcast, Stories & Inspiration, Tests, Medicines, Treatments & Surgery
Click play to hear the full interview ⬇ Jakki introduces her five pillars of Healing the Heart At the age of 36 she was diagnosed with Congestive Heart Failure, Idiopathic Cardiomyopathy and Aortic Stenosis from an undiagnosed Bicuspid Aortic Valve. Her life was...
by Sallie Crawley | Apr 20, 2021 | Emotional Recovery & Mental Health, Podcast, Relationships, Family, Carers & Intimacy, Stories & Inspiration, Symptoms, Monitoring & Knowing When to Get Help, Tests, Medicines, Treatments & Surgery, Understanding Your Heart & Diagnosis
She had been experiencing regular headaches and stress, at one point thought her blood pressure machine must have been broken. Who’d have thought about a heart attack. Constant headaches and stress Sara was fit, healthy and ate a good diet. She had been...
